Fused silver nanowires with metal oxide nanoparticles and organic polymers for highly transparent conductors

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9877-9882

  Zhu, Rui ^a   Chung, Choong Heui ^a   Cha, Kitty C ^a   Yang, Wenbing ^a   Zheng, Yue Bing ^a   Zhou, Huanping ^a   Song, Tze Bin ^a   Chen, Chun Chao ^a   Weiss, Paul S ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary force; self assembly; silver nanowire; solar cells; solution process; TiO 2; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; SILVER NANOWIRE; SOLUTION PROCESS; TIO; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

ADHESION; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; TIN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SILVER;

NANOMATERIAL; POLY(3,4 ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE) POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLY(3,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE)-POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SILVER; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYSTYRENES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIOPHENES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84555177285     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203576v     Document Type: Article

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